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Volume 38, Issue 2 , Pages 159-161 , March 2010

Neonatal rates and risk factors of device-associated bloodstream infection in a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia

Hanan H. Balkhy, MD
- King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Saif Alsaif, MD
- King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Aiman El-Saed, MD, PhD
- King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States and WHO Collaborating Center for Infection Prevention and Control, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Mohammad Khawajah, MD
- King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Reddy Dichinee, RN
- King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Ziad A. Memish, MD
- King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States and WHO Collaborating Center for Infection Prevention and Control, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Address correspondence to Ziad A Memish, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FIDSA, director of GCC and WHO Collaborating Center for Infection Prevention and Control; executive director of Infection Prevention and Control Program, King Abdulaziz Medical City; associate dean College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, PO Box 22490 Riyadh 11426, KSA.

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